Unsolved case · 2013
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Arif Raihan Dwip, a BUET mechanical engineering student and student activist, was stabbed in his university dormitory in April 2013 and died nearly three months later; a suspect was arrested and confessed but was later released on bail, and no verdict has been reached in the case.
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Suggest coverage for Killing of Arif Raihan DwipArif Raihan Dwip was a third-year mechanical engineering student at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), where he lived in Nazrul Islam Hall. He was a convenor committee member of the Bangladesh Chhatra League and had participated in the Shahbagh movement, which supported the trial of individuals accused of war crimes during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Dwip had been accused of verbally abusing an imam at a University of Dhaka mosque for supplying food to a Bangladesh Hefajat-e Islam rally on 5 April 2013. Following this, threats against him appeared on a Facebook group called "Buetian."
On 9 April 2013, Dwip was stabbed inside Nazrul Islam Hall at BUET. He was treated by neurosurgeon Pijush Kanti Mitra at Dhaka Medical College Hospital before being transferred to Square Hospital. He died at Square Hospital at 3:30 am on 2 July 2013. The Bangladesh Chhatra League attributed the attack to Bangladesh Jamaat-e-Islami and its student wing, Islami Chhatra Shibir.
In the aftermath, Dwip's brother filed a case, leading to the arrest of a fellow BUET student, Mezbah Uddin, who was a fourth-year student detained from Dr MA Rashid Hall. According to detectives, Mezbah Uddin confessed and stated he had been influenced by a radical preacher, and had been in communication with Mufti Jasimuddin Rahmani. He was later released on bail, and the trial did not proceed further. BUET formed a three-member investigation committee, and students boycotted classes to demand punishment for those responsible, submitting demands to vice-chancellor S. M. Nazrul Islam. Classes resumed on 21 April 2013 after the Bangladesh government said it would form its own Ministry of Home Affairs investigation committee.
Dwip's father, Sk Ali Azam, sought the intervention of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina in pursuing the case. Separately, another BUET student and Gonojagoron Mancho activist, Tonmoy Ahmed Moon, was stabbed on 12 August 2013 in Gaibandha District, reportedly by Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir activists.
On 2 July 2024, Dwip's death anniversary was marked at BUET, with friends and family expressing resentment over the continued lack of a verdict in the case. They alleged that Bangladesh Islami Chhatra Shibir, Basherkella, and Hizb ut-Tahrir Bangladesh had glorified the accused while branding Dwip an "enemy of Islam." In August 2024, Mufti Jasimuddin Rahmani was released on bail by the Bangladesh interim government led by Muhammad Yunus.
Dwip was accused of verbally abusing an imam at a University of Dhaka mosque for supplying food to a Hefajat-e Islam rally.
Dwip was stabbed inside Nazrul Islam Hall at BUET.
BUET students resumed classes after the government pledged to form an investigation committee under the Ministry of Home Affairs.
Dwip died at 3:30 am at Square Hospital.
Fellow BUET student and Gonojagoron Mancho activist Tonmoy Ahmed Moon was stabbed in Gaibandha District.
Dwip's death anniversary was marked at BUET; friends and family expressed resentment over the lack of a verdict.
Mufti Jasimuddin Rahmani was released on bail by the Bangladesh interim government led by Muhammad Yunus.
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BUET mechanical engineering student stabbed in his dormitory on 9 April 2013; died 2 July 2013.[3]
Fourth-year BUET student who confessed to detectives to stabbing fellow student Arif Raihan Dwip on 9 April 2013 (Dwip died of his injuries three months later) after being radicalized by a militant preacher; convicted and sentenced to 5 years in prison plus a fine by the Speedy Trial Tribunal-4 of Dhaka in a verdict delivered around 2018. He was earlier released on bail on grounds of mental instability and, despite the conviction, has not been taken into custody to serve the sentence — Bangladeshi press describes him as absconding/living freely and unpursued, with police reportedly lacking an active warrant for him.[3]
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